Colonists came to the British government with alternative solutions on how raise money in America, but because of the stubbornness of the king's first minister George Greenville, they were all rejected. Shortly after this, Parliament made the colonists purchase special seals or stamps to put on all legal documents. This is known as the Stamp Act. There was one man who thought he could change everything in the Virginian colonies, and his name was Patrick Henry. He tried telling the colonists that any such tax was, "illegal, unconstitutional, and unjust, and has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American liberty." American woman started to make their own clothes and reject the ones that Britain was sending over with taxes. The Brit's refused to back down and sent out the Declaratory Act which put supremacy over the Americans in all cases no matter what. One of the final straws according to the Americans was on March 5, 1770, when five civilians were killed by British soldiers. No one really knows the facts but it is thought that some boys were throwing snow balls and rocks at the British soldiers and when the soldiers thought the crowd was starting to overwhelm them they started shooting. This incident is now referred to as the Boston Massacre. But the final straw had yet to be pulled. Just over three years after the massacre, it happened. The British Parliament passed the Tea Act, that taxed the tea bought by colonists. Colonists had been smuggling in tea from Holland for cheap and didn't like this. The colonists sent the ships with the tea back home with the tea in hand, stating that they didn't want their tea. But in Boston, the governor would not let the ship sail back to England with the tea on it. So the ship sat in the harbor for days until one night, some colonists, dressed as Mohawks, entered the ship and threw all the barrels of tea into the Boston Harbor.